Rock Festival

Youngbloods | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B00008OM0P
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #166,484 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. It's A Lovely Day

2. Faster All The Time

3. Prelude

4. On Beautiful Lake Spenard

5. Josiane

6. Sea Cow Boogie

7. Fiddler A Dram

8. Misty Roses

9. Interlude

10. Peepin' 'N' Hidin'

11. Ice Bag

Editorial Reviews

Domestic CD debuts! Fresh from the success of "Get Together," the Youngbloods signed to Warner Bros. in 1970 for four albums that ranged from folk, bluegrass, jazz, and country to good old rock ‘n’ roll. 1970’s Rock Festival and ‘71’s Ride The Wind, both recorded live, find Jesse Colin Young’s mesmerizing guitar and vocals shadowed perfectly by jazzy electric piano and percussion. Good And Dusty (‘71) and High On A Ridge Top (‘72) focus on classics as interpreted by a San Francisco original: the Youngbloods

Customer Reviews

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic, mellow SF pysch-rock, April 29, 2003

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rock Festival (Audio CD)

Like their East Coast counterparts, John Sebastian and the Lovin' Spoonful, Jesse Colin Young and the Youngbloods were a psychedelicized hippie jug band that successfully wed their folk music roots with a profound pop savvy. Their peace and love anthem, "Get Together," was a chartbuster in the Fall of '69 (and remains a staple of classic rock radio to this day), and having scored a Top Ten hit, the San Fran-based Boston expatriates became a hot item at the dawn of the new decade. They signed with the counterculture-identified Warner Records, with a deal that gave them creative control over the albums on their newly-formed Raccoon imprint, and this cleverly-titled, spacy live album was their first release. Yeah, maybe it wasn't the commercial success the Warner suits hoped for, but it sure shows the band in fine form. Their country-roots side is largely subsumed to a mellow space-jazz/jam band style, all full of love and peace vibes. Anchored by Lowell "Banana" Levinger's dreamy keyboards, the group grooves through several of their best-known songs, as well as other, loosely-formed new tunes -- perhaps as professional and competent as hippie rockers got, back in the day. Those who hate stoner bands will find plenty to roll their eyes about here, but anyone with an open mind, and an ear for starry-eyed, rambling melodies, will find this quite pleasant.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Concert Jam album, April 21, 2010

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Mark Eddy (St Paul, MN) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rock Festival (Audio CD)

You've heard GET TOGETHER and It's still wonderful. But dig deeper and you'll find a lot to treasure. This album is just sheer fun, a great-sunny-day-let's-dance-a-bit-in-the-living-room-between-the-speakers- sort of thing.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THe picture of the crowd, October 25, 2009

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P. Pirillo (mansfield, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rock Festival (Audio CD)

The picture of the crowd on the back cover was taken at New Paltz University, the fall of 1969 during a performance of the Jefferson Airplane. The show opened with the Youngbloods, then the Airplane,and the headliner was Joe Cocker. The reason I know is that my friends and I are shown in the crowd on the lp cover and we know where we were during each performance.